Military History
RUSSIA From the Varangians to the Bolsheviks
Clarendon Press Oxford University Press, 1918. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (edges rubbed and library plate on upper board). Pp. xxiv + 601, illus with folding map (inner hinges loosened; ex academic library with usual stamps). More
CALL TO ARMS Buckinghamshire's Citizen Soldiers.
Barracuda Books, 1985. 086023245X. Limited numbered 1st edn (253). Tall 8vo. Original gilt lettered green cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (VG). Pp. 144, illus with b&w photos (previous owner's neat inscription on front endpaper). More
JOHNNIE GOUGH VC A Biography Of Brigadier-General Sir John Edmond Gough V.C., K.C.B.
Tom Donovan, 1989. 1871085012. 1st edn. 8vo. Original silver gilt lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine in protective cover). Pp. xvi + 244, illus with b&w plates and maps (no inscriptions). [Military colonial campaigning in British Central Africa 1896, Sudan 1898, Boer War 1899-1902, Somaliland 1903 and 1909 and chief..... More
ARDENNES 1944 Hitler's Last Gamble
Viking, 2015. 9780670918645. 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (casing with slight lean - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. xix + 451, illus with b&w photos and maps (no inscriptions). More
D-DAY The Battle for Normandy
Viking, 2009. 067088703X. 1st edn 5th printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (VG, not price clipped). Pp. xv + 591, illus with b&w photos and maps (no inscriptions). More
D-DAY The Battle for Normandy
Viking, 2009. 067088703X. 1st edn 5th printing signed by author on title page. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (top pages tanned - otherwise near Fine), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. xv + 591, illus with b&w photos and maps (no inscriptions). More
INSIDE THE BRITISH ARMY.
Chatto & Windus, 1990. 0701134666. 1st edn signed by author on title page. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (page edges tanned - otherwise near Fine), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, not price clipped. Pp. xxxiii + 398 (previous owner's lengthy ink gift inscription on front endpaper). More
THE MYSTERY OF OLGA CHEKHOVA Was Hitler's Favourite Actress A Russian Spy?
Viking Penguin Books, 2004. 0670915203. 1st edn 1st printing signed by author on title page. 8vo. Original gilt letterered black cloth (top edge a little tanned - otherwise Fine), dustwrapper (Fine, price clipped). Pp. 300, illus with b&w plates and maps (no other inscriptions). More
SOLDIER'S GLORY Being Rough Notes of an Old Soldier
G. Bell & Sons, 1956. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth (VG), dustwrapper (chipped and rubbed at extrems - in protective wrapper). Pp. ix + 325, illus with b&w frontispiece and maps (top and fore-edge and endpapers spotted; no inscriptions). More
IN HARM'S WAY
Hamish Hamilton, 1995. 024113577X. 1st edn 1st printing signed by author on title page. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (VG), duswrapper (some light wear at edges - in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 274, illus with b&w photos and map (previous owner's bookplate on front free endpaper; no..... More
THROUGH THE GATES OF FIRE A Journey into World Disorder
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003. 0297847481. 1st edn 2nd printing signed by author on title page. 8vo. Original silver lettered blue cloth (VG), duswrapper (VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 232 (no other inscriptions). More
GENERAL SKETCH OF THE EUROPEAN WAR The Second Phase
Thomas Nelson, 1916. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blind-ruled red cloth (bright VG). Pp. 404 (fore-edge spotted; no inscriptions), illus with b&w maps. More
CHARLIE B A Biography of Admiral Lord Beresford of Metemmeh and Curraghmore.
Peter Dawnay, 1968. 1st edn. Tall 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth, top edge red (rubbed at edges), dustwrapper (poor - chipped and worn at edges - in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. xii + 378, illus with b&w plates and maps with errata slip tipped-in at rear (no..... More
THE BATTLE OF BOSWORTH
Sutton, 1985. 086299053X. 1st edn. Tall 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (top edge lightly dust stained/lightly spotted - otherwise near Fine), dust wrapper (small horizontal scratch at mid spine - otherwise near Fine). Pp. xi + 197, illus with b&w photos and drawings (no inscriptions). More
THE ARCHER-SHEES AGAINST THE ADMIRALTY
Robert Hale, 1973. 0709136765. 1st edn. 8vo. Original black lettered grey cloth (light wear on extrems - VG), dustwrapper (spine ends chipped - in protective wrapper, price clipped). Pp. 188, illus with b&w plates (tippes on verso title page; no inscriptions). More
CONFEDERATE MOBILE
Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1991. 0878055126. 1st edn. 8vo. Original red metallic lettered light blue cloth (VG), dustwrapper (VG). Pp. xii + 271 (no inscriptions). More
IN THE UNLIKLIEST OF PLACES How Nachman Libeskind Survived the Nazis Gulags and Soviet Communism
Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2014. 9781771120661. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine). Pp. xiii + 276, illus with coloured drawings in text (no inscriptions). More
PLAYFAIR The True Story of the British Secet Agent Who Changed How We See the World
Fairfax VA: George Mason University Press, 2018. 9781942695042. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt decorated brown cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (spine sunned and some light wear at edges - in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. xxiv + 477, illus with b&w photos and figures in text (no inscriptions). More
CONSCRIPTS Lost Legions of the Great War
Sutton, 1999.. 0750921080. 1st edn signed by author on front free endpaper. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (near Fine), dustwrapper (VG, not price clipped). Pp. xv + 239, illus with b&w plates (no other inscriptions). More
SPIES AND OTHER SECRETS Memoirs from the Second Cold War
Viking, 1994. 9780670851614. 1st edn 1st printing signed and inscribed by author on title page. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 397, illus with b&w plates (dedicatee's bookplate on front endpaper; no other inscriptions). More
WEST POINT Two Centuries and Beyond
Abilene TX: McWhiney Foundation Press, 2004. 9781893114470. 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (top and fore-edge spotted - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (VG, not price clipped). Pp. 623, illus with b&w photos (no inscriptions). More
WITH KELLY TO CHITRAL
Edward Arnold, 1896. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt decorated red cloth (boards rather discoloured with wear at edges). Pp. 160, + 32, illus with coloured folding map and b&w plates (small tear at bottom edge of map; previous owner's 1896 inscription on half title and private library label on front..... More
THE PETROV STORY
William Heinemann, 1955. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered terracotta cloth (top edge lightly dust stained, endpapers lightly spotted), dustwrapper (faded at spine, worn at extrems, small tear at head of spine - in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. xvi + 247, illus with b&w plates (no inscriptions). More
THE BICKERSTETH DIARIES 1914 1918.
Pen & Sword Books Leo Cooper, 1995. 0850524881. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth (VG), dustwrapper (lower cover torn at bottom edge - in protective cover). Pp. xx + 332, illus with b&w photos and maps (no inscriptions). More